Tech Meme

Financial Times: A profile of Alibaba co-founder Eddie Wu, set to become CEO in the fall, who has a close relationship with mentor Jack Ma and will manage the company’s breakup  —  Tech group co-founder to take reins and preside over its break-up  —  When Alibaba co-founder Eddie Yongming Wu struck … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Victor / The Information: Source: Jacob Devlin, who quit Google to join OpenAI in January 2023 after complaining Bard was being trained on ChatGPT data, has returned to Google  —  Jacob Devlin, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher who left Google for rival OpenAI in January after complaining internally … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: A look at the Apple Vision Pro’s features in the visionOS SDK, including a “Moving at Unsafe Speed” alert, a “Travel Mode” for airplanes, and a “Guest Mode”  —  Apple announced Vision Pro at WWDC 2023.  But even so, there are still a lot of details … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: A profile of Michael Kives, a Hollywood agent turned investor, as FTX’s bankruptcy lawyers sue his VC firm K5 Global to recover ~$700M that SBF had invested  —  Michael Kives, a former Hollywood agent, connected FTX’s founder to Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Bill Clinton and others. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Representatives of Prosus and Peak XV, formerly Sequoia India, resign from Byju’s board; Deloitte quit as Byju’s auditor over a delay in handing over financials  —  Prosus and Peak XV Partners confirmed Friday that their representatives have resigned from the board of Byju’s, India’s most valuable startup. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Andreessen Horowitz created a16z Perennial Venture Capital Fund and a16z Perennial Management investment advisor, presumably expanding into wealth management  —  Andreessen Horowitz, the storied venture firm known for being an early investor in some of the biggest tech companies including Airbnb … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Vallance / BBC: Google plans to update Android’s Emergency SOS after UK police blame the feature, activated by repeatedly pressing a side button, for a surge in false 999 calls  —  Police forces across the UK have warned that a new feature on some Android phones is plaguing switchboards with inadvertent “silent” 999 calls. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: UK-based EvaluAgent, which is building call center quality assurance testing software, raised a $20M Series A led by PeakSpan, taking its total funding to $21M  —  After spending more than a decade in the customer experience industry, three friends, Jaime Scott, Michelle Dinsmore and Alex Richards … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Atlanta-based Accelerant, which is launching a marketplace for insurance underwriters, raised $150M led by Barings at a $2.4B valuation, up from $2.2B in 2022  —  Barings LLC is leading a $150 million investment in Accelerant, valuing the insurance-related business at $2.4 billion. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: A look at the Apple Vision Pro’s features in the visionOS SDK, including a “Moving at Unsafe Speed” alert, a “Travel Mode” for airplanes, and a “Guest Mode”  —  Apple announced Vision Pro at WWDC 2023.  But even so, there are still a lot of details … Lees verder op Tech Meme